Barb's Burblings

The escalator in the Bethesda

The escalator in the Bethesda Metro stop is very, very long. I generally don’t walk up it, but a lot of in-shape people do. And there’s this one guy who, as he walks up, says, “Good morning!” and “Have a good day!” to everyone as he passes. It totally threw me off the first time it happened; now I enjoy it. Combine that with the strains of the “Ode to Joy” wafting down from the trumpet player at the top of the escalator, and it makes a nice morning. The trumpet player, by the way, is fairly amusing. He isn’t too good; for each song, he has maybe a line or two of it down really pat, then sort of fudges the rest. But he’s pretty good at “Amazing Grace.”